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Lesser Antilles (Beinecke)

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The Beinecke Collection is the pièce de résistance of the Hamilton College Library collections. It is the preeminent collection of materials on the Lesser Antilles, largely from the 16th-19th centuries. This online collection includes more than 18,000 pages of rare original plantation reports, correspondence, oil paintings and watercolors. This collection was originally developed by Walter Beinecke, Jr., and donated to the Hamilton College Library.

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The Beinecke Collection is the pièce de résistance of the Hamilton College Library collections. It is the preeminent collection of materials on the Lesser Antilles, largely from the 16th-19th centuries. This online collection includes more than 18,000 pages of rare original plantation reports, correspondence, oil paintings and watercolors. This collection was originally developed by Walter Beinecke, Jr., and donated to the Hamilton College Library.

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"My Dear Friend I return you your Journal with many thanks for your kindness in lending it to me -- and I have perused it with great pleasure as being the work of so valued a friend in addition to its own merit...", Original digital object name: bei-m561, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

"My Dear Sir I have been with Mr Edward but find that Gentlemen since he has hired Westbury for a term of years and finds he is not likely to get it off his hands has given up all thought of purchasing, in short I never knew one of those West India Planters that knew their own minds...", Original digital object name: bei-m295, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Wilberforce, a close friend of William Pitt, devoted much of his active political career to the abolition of slavery, cf. DNB 21:208-217."Many thanks my dear Sir, but..." signed "W Wilberforce", Original digital object name: bei-m469a, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

"Dear Sir I thank you for your letter of Friday. -- I proposed to Mr. West to paint a picture for me..." signed "B Edwards", two postscripts.The painting, actually executed by Thomas Stothard, entitled "The Voyage of the Sable Venus, from Angola to the West Indies," appears in vol. 2, p. 29 of Edwards' History., Original digital object name: bei-m354a, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

2p. "To the overseers and Church wardens &amp, c. of St Margarets Westmr" "Gentn Understanding that there is to be a Meeting tomorrow for the purpose of receiving appeals and applications for the mitigation of ye Rates, I take the Liberty of submitting... the Suggestion of mitigating the poor rate..." signed "W Wilberforce", Original digital object name: bei-m469d, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

Affidavit, signed by William Pickett, May 4, 1790, regarding John Lee, Original digital object name: bei-m338d, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.

"...You have all that I bro't, that I have or can get -- is it to any purpose for me to die in the Streets? No Sir, -- By this means you must lose your money, and I repeat it to you again and again -- That I shall not die in Peace, untill it is paid -- ... As Mr Apthorp has kindly confer'd with you in my behalf..." initialled "HHW"Has been separated by circumstances from his family and business., Original digital object name: bei-m217, This digital resource is provided by the Special Collections department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States.